Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Westhoff: prediction
9 Oct 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap
“I don’t know how it works in, say, New Hampshire, but I know in places like West Virginia, it’s still a primarily pill market.”
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- Ben Westhoff
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- 9 Oct 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…It’s such a big life decision, and it’s shaped by this very small cost of getting a package from New Hampshire to Florida. What should we infer about human nature as a result of that? What’s your model of the human beings doing this stuff if those geographic differences really make the difference for whether or not you do this and destroy your life? Well, everything is local, right? Not just politics. You’re influenced by the people around you and the relative costs. In St. Louis, it’s so incredibly cheap, like $5 to get some heroin, some fentanyl. I don’t know how it works in, say, New Hampshire, but I know in places like West Virginia, it’s still a primarily pill market. People don’t use powdered heroin, for example. For whatever reason, they prefer Oxycontin. So that has affected the market, too. Why isn’t fentanyl more of an urban drug? Or is it now?…
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